I got this amazing White Tea from Myanmar at the 2018 World Tea Expo. This was one of the best teas I had at the whole tea expo. This puppy was expensive too, at $55 for 75 grams as it is old tree “secret garden” material.
Leaf and Steeping Method
The material is gorgeously fluffy.
I used 1 gram of leaf to 20ml of vessel size. I prefer thickly walled gaiwans or dedicated high-temperature retention/fired teapots for white teas. I did not rinse the tea here. The hot wet leaf smells like daffodils. The tea is ultra clear and pristine with a soft tinge of white gold.
Tasting of 2018 Myanmar White tea
First and Second Infusion: Myanmar White is ultra thick, juicy mouthed, and heavy tea. It is a mix of cream and wet rocks, with a clean spring water sweetness. Some sips have a juicy and thick floral stem chew to it. This tea feels very oily to drink, like heavy cream with a stick of butter in it, along with a salivation effect.
Third and Fourth Infusion: I’ve had this Myanmar White tea a couple times before this session I’m writing the review for. This is the first time I tasted a button mushroom note in the tea. The flavor is like cream of mushroom soup, but with a juicy floral sweet finish. The thickness of this tea is something else, I took a big sip and felt like I got hit in the solar plexus.
Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Infusion: The mushroom note was a weird anomaly as it didn’t last. The Myanmar White got darker these infusions with a coppery hue. Now the taste is rice syrup sweet and bran cereal, with juicy and thick elements. Not a lick of dry or bitterness.
Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Infusion: This white tea just kept going. The final infusion went on for 20 minutes and I felt I could have gotten one more infusion if I boiled it on the stove. Myanmar White finished syrupy and slightly Medjool date like. It still had a thick texture and salivation even till the end, which is impressive.
Comments
In all, this 2018 Myanmar White tea is one of my favorite purchases so far this year as it caught my eye for quality and potential. It is a young tea, but it is densely creamy, sweet, juicy, but also indestructible. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if this was 2017 instead of 2018 tea as it not ultra fresh in taste. There is a lot of good white tea out this year and I look for the ones that have a good thick sweet and dark date leaning for future aging potential.
Either way, there is awesome border tea out there. So I don’t know how you can this specific Myanmar tea, but here is the website – Guangxi Guozhuang Investment Co Ltd (that is now a broken link). Their puer isn’t bad either.
